Wednesday, December 11, 2013
11 December
Start of class: "That Old Devil Called Love" by Billie Holiday (1944)
"Black and Blue" by the Duke Ellington Orchestra (1929)
Acid Jazz example: "Take Four" by Chris Bangs from Fuck Acid House… This Is Acid Jazz (2008)
Electrojazz example: "Live at Bla" by Bugge Wesseltoft from New Conception of Jazz Live (2003)
Contemporary Jazz example: "You've Got To Be Modernistic" by Jason Moran from Modernistic (2002)
Contemporary Jazz example: "Paranoid Android" by Brad Mehldau from Largo (2002)
End of course: "Butterfly" by the Robert Glasper Experiment from Double Booked (2009)
Monday, December 9, 2013
9 December
Start of class: "Hollywood Stampeded" by Coleman Hawkins (1945)
"China Boy" by the Bechet-Spanier Big Four (1940)
Neoclassical Jazz example: "Autumn Leaves" by Wynton Marsalis from Standard Time, Vol. 1 (1986)
Contemporary Jazz example: "River" by Tatsu Aoki from The Miyumi Project (2000)
Contemporary Jazz example: "Á l'ouest!" by Le Sacre du tympan from Le Sacre du tympan (2002)
Contemporary Jazz example: "Chank" by John Scofield from A Go Go (1998)
End of class: "Sir Roderick the Aloof" by the Branford Marsalis Quartet from Braggtown (2006)
Friday, December 6, 2013
6 December
Start of class: "Paradoxe 1" by Le Jazz Groupe de Paris and André Hodeir from Jazz in Paris (recorded 1956, released 2001)
"Live and Love Tonight" by Basie's Bad Boys (1939)
"Lookie, Lookie, Lookie" by Cleo Brown (1935)
Example of progressive movement in jazz: "Piece Three" by Anthony Braxton from Creative Orchestra Music (1976)
Example of neoclassical jazz: "Processional" by Wynton Marsalis from In This House, On This Morning (1994)
Thursday, December 5, 2013
4 December
Start of class: "Downtime" by Robert Glasper Trio from Double Booked (2009)
"Blues In Disguise" by Mezz Mezzrow (1934)
Example of Afro-Brazilian fusion (samba): "Samba Dees Days" by Stan Getz from Jazz Samba (1962)
Example of Afro-Brazilian fusion (bossa nova): "Desafinado" by Stan Getz and Joao Gilberto from Getz/Gilberto (1959)
Example of Afro-Cuban fusion: "Watermelon Man" by Mongo Santamaria from Watermelon Man! (1963)
Monday, December 2, 2013
2 December
Start of class: "Take the A Train" by Ella Fitzgerald with Duke Ellington and his Orchestra from Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Duke Ellington Songbook (1957)
Fusion example: "Bitches Brew" by Miles Davis from Bitches Brew (1970)
Soul jazz example: "This Little Girl of Mine" by Grant Green from Blues for Lou (1963)
Smooth jazz example: "Breezin'" by George Benson from Breezin' (1976)
Jazz-rock fusion: "Teen Town" by Weather Report from Heavy Weather (1976)
End of class: "Major and Minor Stomp" by Jimmy Dorsey (1939)
Monday, November 25, 2013
25 November
Start of class: "Big Sky" by the John Scofield Quartet from What We Do (1993)
Free improvisation example: "Number 7" by Fred Van Hove, Peter Brötzmann, and Hans Bennink from FMP130 (1973)
John Coltrane example: "Acknowledgement" from A Love Supreme (1965)
The Avant garde example: "Ghosts" by Albert Ayler from Lörrach, Paris, 1966 (1966)
The Avant garde example 2: "Nonaah" by the Roscoe Mitchell and the Art Ensemble of Chicago from Nonaah (1976)
Fusion example and end of class: "Bitches Brew" by Miles Davis from Bitches Brew (1970)
Friday, November 22, 2013
22 November
Start of class: "A Little Love, A Little Kiss" by Django Reinhardt (1937)
"Blues for Alice" by Charlie Parker (1951)
"There'll Come a Time" by Bix Beiderbecke (1928)
Miles Davis example: "E.S.P." from E.S.P. (1965)
John Coltrane example: "Giant Steps" from Giant Steps (1959)
Free improvisation example: "Free Jazz" by Ornette Coleman from Free Jazz (1961)
Thursday, November 21, 2013
20 November
Start of class: "Lullaby to a Dream" by Benny Carter (1934)
"I Ain't Lazy (I'm Just Dreamin')" by Jack Teagarden (1934)
Miles Davis example: "Walkin'" from Walkin' (1954)
Miles Davis example: "So What" from Kind of Blue (1959)
End of class: "59 South" by the Robert Glasper Trio from Double Booked (2009)
Monday, November 18, 2013
18 November
Start of class: "One O'Clock Jump" by Lambert, Hendricks, and Ross from Sing a Song of Basie (1955)
"How Do You Do Me Like You Do?" by Spike Hughes and his Negro Orchestra (1933)
"Desafinado" by Joao Gilberto and Stan Getz from Getz/Gilberto (1964)
West Coast Jazz example: "Jeru" by the Gerry Mulligan/Chet Baker Quartet (1952)
Birth of the Cool example: "Moon Dreams" by Miles Davis Nonet (1950)
Cool Jazz example: "Take Five" by Dave Brubeck from Take Five (1959)
Hard Bop example: "Moanin'" by Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers from Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers (1958)
End of class: "That's How I Feel Today" by the Chocolate Dandies (1929)
Wednesday, November 13, 2013
13 November
Start of class: "Music at Sunrise" by Spike Hughes and his Orchestra (1933)
"J'ai peur" by Laurent Cugny from La Tectonique des nuages (2010)
"I'll Never Be the Same" by Django Reinhardt (1949)
"Now's the Time" by Charlie Parker (1952)
Third Stream example: "Variants on a Theme by Thelonious Monk" by Gunther Schuller and John Lewis from Jazz Abstractions (1961)
End of class: "Nuages" by Le Quintette du Hot Club de France (1946)
Monday, November 11, 2013
11 November
Start of class: "Somebody Loves Me" by Benny Carter and his Orchestra (1937)
"Question Time (Knitting or Quitting, Part 5)" by Open Loose (Mark Helias) from New School (2001)
Jazz during the Civil Rights Era: "Fables of Faubus" by Charles Mingus from Mingus Ah Um (1959)
Theme for Third Stream example: "Criss Cross" by Thelonious Monk from Criss Cross (1962)
Third Stream example and end of class: "Variants on a Theme by Thelonious Monk" from Jazz Abstractions (1960)
Friday, November 8, 2013
8 November
Start of class: "Tight" by Kurt Elling from Nightmoves (2007)
"Barnacle Bill the Sailor" by Bix Beiderbecke (1930)
Jazz as Common Practice: "Blue 7" by Sonny Rollins from Saxophone Colossus (1956)
Jazz as Common Practice: "Long Tall Dexter" by Dexter Gordon (1946)
Jazz during the Civil Rights Era and end of class: "Fables of Faubus" by Charles Mingus from Mingus Ah Um (1959)
Wednesday, November 6, 2013
6 November
Start of class: "Autumn in New York" by Biréli Lagrène from Blue Eyes (1998)
Bebop example: "Tempus Fugue-It" by Bud Powell (1949)
Jazz as Common Practice: "Blue Monk" by the Thelonious Monk Quartet from video Monk in Oslo (1966)
Jazz as Common Practice: "Rhythm-a-ning" by Thelonious Monk from Criss-Cross (1962)
End of class: "Bull Frog Blues" by Charles Pierce and his Orchestra (1927)
Monday, November 4, 2013
4 November
Start of class: "Careless Love" by Sidney Bechet (1949)
"Baby, Let Me Follow You Down" by Medeski Martin and Wood from Radiolarians II (2009)
Bebop example: "Ko-ko" by Charlie Parker (1945)
Bebop blues example: "Now's the Time" by Charlie Parker (1953)
Bebop example: "Groovin' High" by Dizzy Gillespie and his Sextet (1945)
End of class: "Blackbird" by Bobby McFerrin from The Voice (1984)
Friday, November 1, 2013
1 November
Start of class: "It Could Happen to You" by Humair/Urtreger/Michelot from HUM (recorded 1979, released 1999)
Transition in the jazz rhythm section: "Topsy (Swing to Bop)" by Charlie Christian (1941)
End of class: "Country March" by Fred Pallem & Le Sacre du Tympan from La Grande Ouverture (2008)
Wednesday, October 30, 2013
30 October
Start of class: "Everywhere You Turn" by the Bad Plus from These Are the Vistas (2003)
Quintet of the Hot Club of France example: "Echoes of France (La Marseillaise)" (1946)
Big Band Era soloists - Coleman Hawkins: "Body and Soul" by Coleman Hawkins and his Orchestra (1939)
Big Band Era soloists - Ben Webster: "Cotton Tail" by the Duke Ellington Orchestra (1940)
Transition in the jazz rhythm section: "Over the Rainbow" by Art Tatum (1939)
Transition in the jazz rhythm section and end of class: "Topsy (Swing to Bop)" by Charlie Christian (1941)
Tuesday, October 29, 2013
28 October
Start of class: "Jumpin' at the Woodside" by Count Basie and his Orchestra (1938)
"Let's Go" by Medeski Martin and Wood from Let's Go Everywhere (2008)
American Jazz Abroad example: ""I'm Coming, Virginia" by Benny Carter and his Orchestra (1938)
Quintet of the Hot Club of France example: "Echoes of France (La Marseillaise)" (1946)
Thursday, October 24, 2013
23 October
Start of class: "Strut" by Jimmy Smith from Dot Com Blues (2001)
"Smells Like Teen Spirit" by the Bad Plus from These Are the Vistas (2003)
Monday, October 21, 2013
21 October
Start of class: "Blue Lou" by Fletcher Henderson and his Orchestra (1936)
"The Lover" by Medeski Martin & Wood from Friday Afternoon in the Universe (1995)
Big Bands after the end of the Big Band Era: "Diminuendo and Crescendo in Blue" by Duke Ellington and his Orchestra from Ellington at Newport (1956)
Fronting the jazz orchestra: "Melancholy Mood" by the Harry James Orchestra - Frank Sinatra, Vocal (1939)
Billie Holiday example: "A Sailboat in the Moonlight" (1939)
Ella Fitzgerald example: "Blue Skies" (1958)
Vocalese example: "One O'Clock Jump" by Lambert, Hendricks, and Ross from Sing a Song of Basie (1955)
End of class: "Speak No Evil" by Wayne Shorter from Speak No Evil (1965)
Friday, October 18, 2013
18 October
Start of class: "Nyack [Live]" by Lettuce from Outta Here (2001)
Duke Ellington's Blanton-Webster Band example: "Conga Brava" (1940)
Ellington/Strayhorn example: "Take the 'A' Train" by the Duke Ellington Orchestra (1938)
Ellington/Strayhorn example: "Blood Count" by the Duke Ellington Orchestra from …And His Mother Called Him Bill (1967)
End of class: "Hungaria" by Django Reinhardt (1939)
Thursday, October 17, 2013
16 October
Count Basie example: "Taxi War Dance" (1939)
Count Basie example: "A Warm Breeze" from A Warm Breeze (1981)
Duke Ellington example: "Mood Indigo" (1930)
Duke Ellington's Blanton-Webster Band example: "Conga Brava" (1940)
End of class: "I Can't Pretend" by Billie Holiday and her Orchestra (1936)
Friday, October 11, 2013
11 October
Start of class: "Mona Lisa" by Jarrett/Peacock/DeJohnette from Tokyo '96 (Live) (1996)
"Listen My Children and You Shall Hear" by Count Basie and his Orchestra (1937)
Big Bad Era example: "Star Dust" by Artie Shaw and his Orchestra (1940)
Big Band Era example: "Shim Sham Shimmy" by the Dorsey Brothers Orchestra (1933)
Big Band Era example: "In the Mood" by the Glenn Miller Orchestra (1939)
Kansas City territory band example: "Walkin' and Swingin'" by Andy Kirk and his Twelve Clouds of Joy (1936)
Count Basie example: "One O'Clock Jump" (1937)
Wednesday, October 9, 2013
9 October
Start of class: "Japanese Sandman" by Django Reinhardt (1937)
"Slow Down Sagg" by Jimmy Smith from Root Down (1972)
Big Band Era example: "King Porter Stomp" by the Benny Goodman Orchestra (1935)
End of class: "What Now" by Medeski Scofield Martin and Wood from Out Louder (2006)
Tuesday, October 8, 2013
7 October
Start of class: "Goodbye Blue" by Benny Carter and his Orchestra (1930)
"Piece Three" by Anthony Braxton from Creative Orchestra Music (1976)
Bix Beiderbecke and Frankie Trumbauer example: "Singin' the Blues" by Bix Beiderbecke and Frankie Trumbauer (1927)
Austin High Gang example: "China Boy" by McKenzie and Condon Chicagoans (1927)
Louis Armstrong study: "Weather Bird" by Louis Armstrong with Early Hines (1928)
Louis Armstrong study: "Hello Dolly" by Louis Armstrong (1964)
Friday, October 4, 2013
4 October
Start of class: "Blues en mineur" by Django Reinhardt (1942)
"Simply So" by Nils Petter Molvaer from NP3 (2002)
Louis Armstrong study: "West End Blues" by Louis Armstrong and his Hot Five (1928)
Louis Armstrong study: "Hotter than That" by Louis Armstrong and his Hot Five (1927)
Early Bix Beiderbecke example: "Tiger Rag" recorded by the Wolverines (1924)
Expanding improvisation example: "Singin' the Blues" by Bix Beiderbecke and Frankie Trumbauer (1927)
Thursday, October 3, 2013
3 October
Start of class: "Shanghai Shuffle" by Louis Armstrong with Fletcher Henderson and his Orchestra (1924)
"Shoe Shine Boy" by Count Basie and Lester Young (1936)
Duke Ellington's jungle music: "Black and Tan Fantasy" by the Duke Ellington Orchestra (1927)
Louis Armstrong example: "West End Blues" by Louis Armstrong and his Hot Five (1928)
Monday, September 30, 2013
30 September
Start of class: "Love for Sale" by Jacky Terrasson from Alive (1998)
Symphonic/Sweet jazz example: "Changes" by the Paul Whiteman Orchestra (1927)
Symphonic/Sweet jazz example: "Rhapsody in Blue" composed by George Gershwin, originally performed by Paul Whiteman and his Orchestra (1924). This recording performed by Leonard Bernstein and the Los Angeles Philharmonic (1982)
Stride Piano example: "You've Got to Be Modernistic" by James P. Johnson (1930)
Early New York big band example: "Copenhagen" by Fletcher Henderson (1924)
End of class: "I Saw Stars" by Django Reinhardt (1934)
Sunday, September 29, 2013
27 September
Start of class: "Bird of Paradise" by Charlie Parker (1947)
"Unsquare Dance" by Dave Brubeck from Time Further Out (1961)
"She Rote" by Charlie Parker (1949)
"Old Folks" by Charlie Parker (1953)
"My Little Suede Shoes" by Charlie Parker (1951)
Jazz in NYC example: "Changes" by Paul Whiteman and his Orchestra (1927)
Wednesday, September 25, 2013
25 September
Start of class: "Some Day My Prince Will Come" by Dave Brubeck from Dave Digs Disney (1957)
"Chi Chi" by Charlie Parker (1953)
Experiment in Modern Music concert repertory: "Livery Stable Blues" by the Original Dixieland Jazz Band (1917)
"Rhapsody in Blues" as performed by Leonard Bernstein and the Los Angeles Philharmonic (1982)
End of class: "Kim" by Charlie Parker (1952)
Monday, September 23, 2013
23 September
Start of class: "Merry Go Round" by Charlie Parker (1948)
"Some Day My Prince Will Come" by Dave Brubeck Dave Digs Disney (1957)
King Oliver example: "Snake Rag" (1923)
Sidney Bechet example: "Cake Walking Babies (From Home)" by the Red Onion Jazz Babies (1925)
Jelly Roll Morton example: "Doctor Jazz" by Jelly Roll Morton and his Red Hot Peppers (1926)
Jelly Roll Morton example 2: "Dead Man Blues" by Jelly Roll Morton and his Red Hot Peppers (1926)
End of class: "Relaxin' at Camarillo" by Charlie Parker (1947)
20 September
Start of class: "I Can't Get Started" by Charlie Parker (1946)
"Bird's Nest" by Charlier Parker (1947)
Ragtime example: "Maple Leaf Rag" by Scott Joplin from Classical Treasures: Maple Leaf Rag (2003)
Ragtime into jazz example: "Maple Leaf Rag" as performed by Jelly Roll Morton (1938)
Brass/concert band example: "Stars and Stripes Forever" recorded by John Philip Sousa (1913)
Syncopated Dance Music example: "Castle House Rag" by James Reese Europe's Society Orchestra (1914)
Syncopated Dance Music example: "Castle House Rag" performed by the New England Ragtime Ensemble from The Art of the Rag (1989)
New Orleans style example: "Dixie Jazz Band One-Step" by the Original Dixieland Jazz Band (1917)
End of class: "Bird Feathers" by Charlie Parker (1947)
Friday, September 20, 2013
18 September
Start of class: "Get Together With the Lord" by Andy Kirk and His Clouds of Joy (1945)
"How High the Moon (Live at Carnegie Hall)" by Ella Fitzgerald and Charlie Parker (1949)
Work Song and African-American Spiritual example: "The Buzzard Lope" as sung by the Georgia Sea Island Singers (1959)
Work Song example: "Hard Times in Ol' Virginia" as sung by the Georgia Sea Island Singers (1959)
Country Blues example: "I Believe I'll Dust My Broom" by Robert Johnson (1936)
City/Classic Blues example: "Reckless Blues" by Bessie Smith (1925)
End of class: "Star Eyes" by the Charlie Parker Quintet (1951)
Monday, September 16, 2013
16 September
Start of class: "Tiny's Tempo" by Charlie Parker (1944)
Start and end of class: "Soothe Me" by Andy Kirk & His Clouds of Joy (1936)
Friday, September 13, 2013
13 September
Jazz description exercise: "Shorter Form" by ScoLoHoFo from Oh! (2003)
End of class: "Soothe Me" by Andy Kirk & His Clouds of Joy (1936)
Thursday, September 12, 2013
11 September
Start of class: "Embraceable You" performed by Charlie Parker (1949)
Blues form in bebop/post-bop contexts: "Now's the Time" by Charlie Parker (1945)
AABA form example: "A Sailboat in the Moonlight" by Billie Holiday (1937)
AABA form example: "So What" by Miles Davis from Kind of Blue (1959)
Riff arrangement example: "Taxi War Dance" by Count Basie and his Orchestra (1939)
Solo break example: "Dr. Jazz" by Jelly Roll Morton (1926)
Improviser's vocabulary example: "Giant Steps" by John Coltrane from Giant Steps (1960)
Jazz description exercise: "Sonny Side" by Sonny Stitt/Bud Powell/J.J. Johnson from Sonny Stitt/Bud Powell/J.J. Johnson (1949)
End of class: "Crazy With the Blues" by Peetie Wheatstraw (1936)
9 September
Start of class: "Dance Cadaverous (Alternate Take)" by Wayne Shorter from Speak No Evil (1965)
Standards example: "I Got Rhythm" sung by Ethel Merman from Merman Sings Merman (1972)
Standards example: "I Got Rhythm" performed by Django Reinhardt (1938)
Contrafact and polyrhythm example: "Anthropology" performed by Mehldau and Rossy Trio from When I Fall In Love (1993)
Big band ensemble and instrumentation example: "One O'Clock Jump" by Count Basie and his Orchestra (1938)
Combo instrumentation example: "Blue 7" by Sonny Rollins from Saxophone Colossus (1956)
Square rhythm example: "Little Walk" by the John Scofield Quartet from What We Do (1993)
Syncopation example: "Green Tea" by John Scofield from A Go Go (1998)
Blues form example: "West End Blues" by Louis Armstrong (1928)
End of class: "Hungaria" by Django Reinhardt (1939)
Saturday, September 7, 2013
6 September
Start of class: "Tempus Fugue-It" by Bud Powell (1949)
"Sweet Sue - Just You" by Spike Hughes and his Negro Orchestra (1933)
"Shorter Form" by ScoLoHoFo from Oh! (2003)
Jazz example 2: "I Can't Give You Anything But Love, Baby" by Billie Holiday with Teddy Wilson and his Orchestra (1936)
Jazz example 3: "A Foggy Day" by Biréli Lagrène from Blue Eyes (1998)
Jazz example 4: "Chubb Sub" by Medeski Martin and Wood from Shack-Man (1996)
Jazz example 5 and end of class: "Discipline" by Sun Ra from Space Is the Place (1973)
Thursday, September 5, 2013
4 September
Start of class: "Carelessly" by Billie Holiday (1936)
Jazz example 1: "One O'Clock Jump" by Harry James and his Orchestra
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